UK Indymedia - UK Technology Newswire Archive

Liverpool NO2ID Inaugural Meeting

07-07-2008 10:40

Liverpool NO2ID group will be having its first meeting at:

Place: Cooper's Pub, Lime Street Station, Lime Street, Liverpool, Merseyside, L1 1JD
Time: Tuesday 8th July, 7:30pm

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'The Top Ten Connections Between NIST and Nano-Thermites' -- by Kevin Ryan

05-07-2008 04:52

Regardless of how thermite materials were installed in the WTC, it is strange that NIST has been so blind to any such possibility. In fact, when reading NIST’s reports on the WTC, and its periodic responses to FAQs from the public, one might get the idea that no one in the NIST organization had never heard of nano-thermites before. But the truth is, many of the scientists and organizations involved in the NIST WTC investigation were not only well aware of nano-thermites, they actually had considerable connection to, and in some cases expertise in, this exact technology.

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Dissident Island Tonight - A bit of a G8 special

04-07-2008 17:21

No Borders ... World Development Movement ... Bicycle Sound Systems ... Hillbilly Music

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G8 and The War Against Torrentism

03-07-2008 19:05

Today's news: Virgin Media are sending out letters advising people not to download content from peer-2-peer torrents.
Coming next: the G8 bring on the "Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement" (ACTA).
Could this be the end of the interwebs as we know it or the start of the real war on the G8?

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Privacy Campaigners Welcome Airlines' Opposition to ID Database

02-07-2008 22:07

Privacy campaigners have welcomed airline bosses' strongly-worded letter opposing plans to force airport workers to register for government ID cards from next year.

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Minutes of Manchester NO2ID Meeting, June 2008

01-07-2008 12:23

Manchester's campaign against the Database State is going from strength to strenth. Find out what's going on and how you can get involved!

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5th European Symposium on Gender and ICT, Call for submissions

29-06-2008 18:34

The Fifth European Symposium on Gender and ICT is taking place in
Bremen, March 5-7 2009.

Those with an interest in ICT education/publication and Women Spaces
are invited to submit by September 1st 2008.

Details:

http://www.informatik.uni-bremen.de/frautec/gict2009/page/contributions.html

Mail:

gict@informatik.uni-bremen.de

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UK Gov failed to assassinate Scottish inventor of fraud-proof voting system

29-06-2008 13:03

2006 Alex Weir, Scottish software developer, invented a fraud-proof voting system specially designed for 3rd world conditions (i.e. Zimbabwe, Kenya, Nigeria etc). British and Chinese Governments described system as 'dangerous'. 2007/12 British Intelligence and French Intelligence tried unsuccessfully to assassinate Weir over 5 days in Conakry, Beirut and Aleppo.

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Dig soil&sand into your bin to shutdown toxic incinerators for Victory now!!!

27-06-2008 13:38

add 5 buckets + of soil & sand+other safe particulate unflammable as possible material to bottom of your bin before filling up. If you live by seaside your lucky, sand is still kept at petrol stations in buckets for a reason. This should seriously help shut the illegally toxic incinerators which regularly breach emissions.
Dig for Victory!!!!!!!!

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July 16th - Protest at the BT AGM, Barbican Centre, London

27-06-2008 12:45

On July 16th 2008 there will be a protest rally at The Barbican Centre (The Barbican Theatre) in London. The purpose of the event is to protest against plans by BT Group PLC, Virgin Media and Car Phone Warehouse to deploy intrusive technology across their broadband networks for the purpose of profiling the behaviour of their customers which is then sold to Phorm Inc. (formerly 121Media) and used for their Open Internet Exchange (OIX) service.

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Cowley Road Carnival - Help campaign against CCTV

24-06-2008 18:36

The Cowley Road carnival is taking place on Sunday 6th July and campaign group No CCTV (www.no-cctv.org,uk) are looking for volunteers to help distribute campaign materials at the event.

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parc Aberporth/uav,and the space race

13-06-2008 09:35

Parc aberporth and st athan will in time be super Military accademys
space war

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US,Russian or Chinese military EMF kills dolphins

12-06-2008 13:53

Many smaller fish etc just die & float to the bottom, we are probably only seeing just the surface of this "hitech" assault on nature.
"In a paper published in Nature magazine, scientists from a British Government-funded research programme show the first evidence of gas bubbles and associated tissue trauma in six dolphins, a porpoise and a beaked whale recovered from British waters."

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Warning safe tests at Universities etc are Gentically modified,doublecheck

12-06-2008 12:02

Warning many safe test at Universities etc are Gentically modified,doublecheck. Starting with unnecessary GM pig+ insulin which was sold on US market as replacement for normal animal insulin which they said was running out, it wasn't running out.
I only found out after asking before a test at Nottigham university.
Diabetics need to contact Insulin diabetes trust

http://www.iddtinternational.org/campaigning/gmvsanimalinsulin.htm

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Critical Art Ensemble's dr steven Kurtz cleared after four years!

11-06-2008 12:37

This is a link to a piece on NYC indymedia.

The original links and backround are at :

http://www.indymedia.ie/article/84640

http://www.criticalart.net/biotech

Dr Kurtz was charged under the Patriot Act in 2004 with bio-terrorism,
after sending material to Dr Ferrell which formed part of their dialogue
with modernity/biotech and art expression.

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Net Neutrality: Stop Virgin from destroying the internet...

07-06-2008 02:07

The new CEO of Virgin Media, Neil Berkett, has openly stated in an interview that they think net neutrality is “a load of bollocks” and claimed they're already doing deals to deliver some people’s content faster than others.

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CPO's with HeadCam, at protests against deportation of Amdani Juma

03-06-2008 20:57

Community Protection Officers (Warden). These are Nottingham City Council employees. Jointly funded by Nottingham City Council and Nottinghamshire Police. They have now replaced City Centre Wardens, Street Wardens, & Neighbourhood Wardens. They are under the direction of the Services Director for Community Safety, & Community Neighbourhood Protection Service of Nottingham City Council.

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Proposed Treaty Turns Internet Into a Virtual Police State

01-06-2008 20:45

Leaked documents are one of the banes of modern western politics. They reveal exercises and actions being proposed that are generally objectionable to the public. Such a leak occurred with the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) which seeks to turn the internet into a virtual police state.

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Home Office plans full spectrum electronic surveillance of all citizens

30-05-2008 10:39

The Home Office is considering plans to develop a centralized surveillance system to track in real time every kind of electronic activity undertaken by all citizens. The project is being driven by the intelligence services and has not yet been discussed by ministers. The surveillance would include a database recording a profile of web activity, emails, and phone taps for every citizen in the UK.

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Benefit Party at Bowl Court Squat for Riseup.net and ASS

28-05-2008 21:41

Music and Lights Saturday 31st May @ Bowl Court Squat, Plough Yard, Near
Drunken Monkey off Shoreditch High Street/Gt. Eastern St junction
9pm-2am

Electro,funk and more!

Its at the Rampart collective's new space thats just had its court date so check it before its too late!